小儿生长发育（Growth and Development）.pptVIP

The Baby’s Brain-Infant Vision Development newborn 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months adult Audition Audition is important because it relates language development. If a child has hearing loss, the child will have impaired speech, language and learning and behavioural problems stemming from difficulty in communication. Newborns prefer sweet tastes over sour, bitter, and salty tastes. They can distinguish odors right from birth and soon learn to know the smell of their mother’s milk and bodies. BEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENT Four Attributes Gross motor Fine motor Language Personal—social skill ? gross motor Physical skills involving large body movements such as lifting head, walking, and jumping. Fine Motor Physical skills involving small body movements, especially with the hands and fingers, such as picking up a coin and drawing. Personal —Social Skill Developmental Surveillance Periodic assessment of a child’s developmental progress with the aim of detecting pre-symptomatic disability Longitudinal and multidimensional developmental monitoring. Over-reliance on isolated developmental scales and tests should be avoided. Screening tests: Screening procedures should be brief, simple, cheap and reliable Diagnostic tests What do we look for in developmental screening? Normal growth pattern Height, weight, head circumference Achievement of developmental milestones(indicating neurological development) Gross motor function Fine motor function and vision Hearing and speech Social behaviour and play Screening tests Pediatric periodic health supervision Standardized developmental screening instruments Not diagnostic when abnormal, diagnostic evaluation should be done DDST children under 6 yrs PPVT from 4 to 9yrs especially for children delayed in language Diagnostic tests Gesell’s test from 4 weeks to 3yrs Bayley from 2 to 30 months WPPSI from 4 to 6.5yrs WISC-R from 6-to 16yrs * Head circumference